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The worm in the apple : how the teacher unions are destroying American education

"It is no coincidence that the thirty-year decline in U.S. K-12 education and the simultaneous surge in education spending began at the same time the modern teacher unions were created. Today, the National Education Association has nearly three million members. Its agenda is not to provide better teaching in schools; it is to provide more money and benefits for teachers - and, above all, for itself. In this critique, Peter Brimelow exposes the teacher unions for what they are: a political and economic monopoly that is choking the education system, like the "trusts" that put a stranglehold on American business a hundred years ago. Until the unions are held accountable, and public schools opened up to market forces, no education reform, no matter how worthy, will succeed. It is time, Brimelow convincingly argues, to bust the Teacher Trust"--The cover.Read more...

Details

Reprint. Originally published in hardcover by HarperCollins Pub., New York, 2003.

Description:

xxi, 296 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

Introducing the NEA and some other things --
The NEA, representatively assembled --
Something is rotten in the American education apple --
What the worm says about the American education apple --
The National Extortion Association --
No bargain --
The inmates take over the asylum --
The worker's paradise --
Kryptonite --
Going to extremes --
Gaijin --
The same old new Unionism --
The NEA is worried --
What is to be done? A twenty-four-point wish list --
The (possible) shape of things to come (aaargh!) --
The states at a glance --
The good guys (and some others).

Abstract:

A hard-hitting critique of the American educational system identifies the teacher's unions as the source of many of the current problems with the nation's schools. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.Read more...

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